“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt As I write this I am heading to the mountains of Sapa in northern Vietnam and reflecting on what a year of Read more

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~Rumi We must become our own seekers. No one knows your journey better than you! We will meet other people along the way who can help guide you, but do Read more

“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.” ~Lao Tzu Happiness is a state Read more

“Open your heart, ignite the flame in your being and awaken the natural flow of energy in your heart. When your heart opens the world around you changes.” ~ Mingtong Gu What a precious gift it is to be alive and to give and receive from our heart. I’ve been in Peru for a week Read more

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”~Buddha Falling in love with yourself is a beautiful concept, but it has been lost. We are told to seek love outside of ourselves rather than be with the beauty of unconditional love inside ourself. When we learn to love yourself everything Read more

“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.” –Lao-Tzu Having gratitude is one of Read more

In honor of ‪#‎30daysofvulnerability‬ I write this post straight from my vulnerable heart. Look at this woman. She has been fighting for her own self love for her entire life. This one is for all survivors of sexual trauma, abuse, and neglect. We are all affected by sexual violence and we all suffer psychologically, economically, Read more

For years I ran away from my anxious feelings, but my anxious thoughts never ran from me they only continued to consume my mind. The more fear I felt rush through my body like a lighting bolt, the more my mind went crazy. I wanted to stop it, control it, tell it to go away. Read more

I thought that sticks and stones could break my bones, but words would never hurt me. I thought that the enemy was me, that I was the one that deserved to suffer. I thought that love was just a silly word used to sell chocolate and roses. I thought that life was only suffering and that all love Read more

Recently I have been struggling with the loving the idea of impermanence. That everyone and everything we love will eventually no longer exists in its physically form. I became sad thinking about it and then a wise friend asked me what is was that I was feeling sad about. I sat and thought about it for Read more

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Feeding The Heart

Feeding The Heart is a blog and resource dedicated to empowerment for whole heart living after trauma. I'm a writer, trauma sensitive-informed yoga teacher, and a trauma survivor here to share my story and journey of holistically healing.